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certainly we heard that from paul ryan. i think the other thing that that come 2014 when they get to the midterm election cycle they know a way they can spin this and i think it's in that maris poll. you ask about the specific policies people want to keep their medicare and medicaid and keep their education and roads and bridges, but you can say government spending in the context of, for example, campaign commercials, and you can get support for that. when we hear government spending we have this 1980s versions of the welfare queen who is living high off the hog and i think that is part of why that desire to cut the unemployment insurance, that senses some people aren't working hard and therefore, we shouldn't be extending government assistance to them. a political strategy possible and we're better than our constituents and we will lead them to something that they need. >> melissa harris-perry, i think a very good diagnosis. thanks for being here tonight. >>> one prominent republican does have a plan but it leeches on to p
certainly we heard that from paul ryan. i think the other thing that that come 2014 when they get to the midterm election cycle they know a way they can spin this and i think it's in that maris poll. you ask about the specific policies people want to keep their medicare and medicaid and keep their education and roads and bridges, but you can say government spending in the context of, for example, campaign commercials, and you can get support for that. when we hear government spending we have...
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house republicans are embracing paul ryan and embracing this deal. john boehner is getting to go back out there -- >> and call them ridiculous, all that stuff. >> and at the same time, suddenly mitch mcconnell and john cornyn are saying paul ryan is crazy, it is a bad idea. we don't want to do this. and it is a fascinating flip of roles. >> we'll have to see how long the house votes, they're saying saturday night that would be hilarious just for the state they would be in by then. but in the house when they go to vote on the paul ryan thing, what is your impression? do you think it will pass? >> i think it will pass, there are enough house republicans supporting it. a lot of guys are looking for ways to put distance between themselves and heritage action, and other groups saying i'm not totally beholden to these groups. and ryan is a unique figure within the republican party. people believe in him. they think he is a conservative. the mitt romney/rhino stink didn't go to him -- >> i love that you had a staffer saying that paul ryan is our jesus, you
house republicans are embracing paul ryan and embracing this deal. john boehner is getting to go back out there -- >> and call them ridiculous, all that stuff. >> and at the same time, suddenly mitch mcconnell and john cornyn are saying paul ryan is crazy, it is a bad idea. we don't want to do this. and it is a fascinating flip of roles. >> we'll have to see how long the house votes, they're saying saturday night that would be hilarious just for the state they would be in by...
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have a great night. >>> poor paul ryan. he is now in deep trouble in the republican party because he made the mistake of actually trying to get something done in congress. >> if you far more deficit reduction you are for this agreement. >> not great. not second best. >> would have preferred something quite different. >> least worst. >> it's not satire. >> isn't budget deal.
have a great night. >>> poor paul ryan. he is now in deep trouble in the republican party because he made the mistake of actually trying to get something done in congress. >> if you far more deficit reduction you are for this agreement. >> not great. not second best. >> would have preferred something quite different. >> least worst. >> it's not satire. >> isn't budget deal.
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i am thinking specifically of paul ryan? he has been quiet this week, is there any conversation between john boehner and paul ryan? >> paul ryan is his top ally, they really developed his trust, ryan can be boehner's conservative whisperer, john boehner has his trust gap, but at the same time, ryan has their trust, is considered a movement member. john boehner is trying to move a grand bargain. it will have a difficult path again, there is a chance of ryan is moving john boehner out to get something moving forward. >> all right, robert costa, national editor of "the washington review" magazine. thank you for your time. and one amazing thing is this, they have already won the fight we are scheduled to be having. a democratic member of congress joins us next to help explain. [ male announcer ] if you're a rinse user, you may have heard there's a new rinse that talks about protecting, even after eating and drinking. crest pro-health has always done that. it's clinically proven to fight plaque and gingivitis. rinsing with pro-he
i am thinking specifically of paul ryan? he has been quiet this week, is there any conversation between john boehner and paul ryan? >> paul ryan is his top ally, they really developed his trust, ryan can be boehner's conservative whisperer, john boehner has his trust gap, but at the same time, ryan has their trust, is considered a movement member. john boehner is trying to move a grand bargain. it will have a difficult path again, there is a chance of ryan is moving john boehner out to...
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so now lindsey graham is against paul ryan. because the front lines in the republican civil war are apparently moving so fast right now, that there's no way to tell which side you're supposed to be on, until you realize you're on the wrong side. but the republicans just have broken out into a full-on civil war right now. it's not just republican members of congress against outside conservative groups who pressure them. it's also republican members of congress against republican members of congress. and particularly, right now, it's republican senators against republicans in the house. and none of the old alliances appear to be sticking. so this is all very fun. it's all fascinating to watch, at least, as the house goes to bed for the year. the plan in the senate, however, seems to be that they will never go to bed again, ever. the senate stayed in session all night last night. they took a vote to confirm a judge around 1:00 a.m. then they stayed all night to take another couple of votes to confirm another judge and another nomi
so now lindsey graham is against paul ryan. because the front lines in the republican civil war are apparently moving so fast right now, that there's no way to tell which side you're supposed to be on, until you realize you're on the wrong side. but the republicans just have broken out into a full-on civil war right now. it's not just republican members of congress against outside conservative groups who pressure them. it's also republican members of congress against republican members of...
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. >> the gathering of gop luminaries, top conservative congressman eric cantor, paul ryan, senate power brokers jim demint, jon kyl, tom coburn, and event organizer frank luntz. >> they decided that they needed to begin to fight obama on everything. this meant unyielding opposition to every one of the obama administration's legislative initiatives. they all talked about this and they began to get more and more optimistic and they left feeling practically exuberant. >> full of events, ten. count them, ten. >> across washington that evening -- >> stunning crowd of people. >> the new president had no idea what the republicans were planning. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and first lady michelle obama. >> surrounded by supporters at the inaugural balls, the mood was hopeful. ♪ at last my love >> president obama didn't have a full sense of what washington was going to be like for him. he had not been in the middle of these kind of down and dirty fights. the ugly reality of governing in washington today. >> that really did end up being a hallmark of president ob
. >> the gathering of gop luminaries, top conservative congressman eric cantor, paul ryan, senate power brokers jim demint, jon kyl, tom coburn, and event organizer frank luntz. >> they decided that they needed to begin to fight obama on everything. this meant unyielding opposition to every one of the obama administration's legislative initiatives. they all talked about this and they began to get more and more optimistic and they left feeling practically exuberant. >> full of...
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it is senator pae eor patty mur is working with paul ryan on this. you might remember him from the big deficit reduction in 2010. he was part of that and he killed it. also the big bipartisan gang of six. he was part of that ena he killed it. he was about part of the grand bargain in 2011 which was killed by paul ryan. so yes, patty murray and paul ryan are reportedly close to a deal that would kill the sequester, get us a budget, and all sorts of reasonable things that everybody in washington says they want. paul ryan's history of working on deals like this is he likes to be seen working on them before he breaks free and calls them impure and kills what he helped to negotiate. i'm not getting excited about this yet. initial reports are positive, long term prospects are dim. even the babiest of babe steps are steps. in a year like this one, a congress like this one, the most meager signs of progress must be nurtured. so you can see like right here i can just... you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim.
it is senator pae eor patty mur is working with paul ryan on this. you might remember him from the big deficit reduction in 2010. he was part of that and he killed it. also the big bipartisan gang of six. he was part of that ena he killed it. he was about part of the grand bargain in 2011 which was killed by paul ryan. so yes, patty murray and paul ryan are reportedly close to a deal that would kill the sequester, get us a budget, and all sorts of reasonable things that everybody in washington...
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we need a stimulus, so said paul ryan in 2002 when his party controlled the white house. but when president obama thought maybe a stimulus would be a good idea, because we were facing the worst downturn since the great depression, somebody had changed paul ryan's channel. >> we can do better than this. this bill, this economic stimulus package is unworthy of our new president's signature. this is just a long spending wish list from every spending interest group that's out there. if you're going to go out and borrow $825,000 -- >> so, recraft it for me, congressman ryan. >> this is not going to work, and that's the concern. >> this stimulus thing is not going to work. who would ever think that a stimulus bill would work? paul ryan's change of heart would have been embarrassing on its own, but it got worse when he was forced to admit that his office had requested money from the 2009 stimulus bill, even though he said that they had not. and even though he said the whole thing wouldn't work. if it wouldn't work, then why did you want some to take home with you? that kind of t
we need a stimulus, so said paul ryan in 2002 when his party controlled the white house. but when president obama thought maybe a stimulus would be a good idea, because we were facing the worst downturn since the great depression, somebody had changed paul ryan's channel. >> we can do better than this. this bill, this economic stimulus package is unworthy of our new president's signature. this is just a long spending wish list from every spending interest group that's out there. if you're...
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. >>> house republicans also voted today again for the paul ryan budget. democrats are very excited about that because they plan to use that vote against republicans in campaign ads for the next election. we have the one and only ezra klein here momentarily to sort out what's important about what they just voted on in congress and whether we just avoided one of the cliff slash ceilings clash crisis congress now schedules for us every few weeks and whether the way they avoided this next one is itself important. there's a lot going on in the news. we have a lot ahead. we begin tonight with late breaking and rather surprising news from the democratic leader in the senate, senator harry reid. following two days of angry response from california senator dianne feinstein, she had been very publicly disappointed and angry harry reid was not going move her assault weapons ban to the senate floor as part of the democrats gun reform package. after two days of defiant reaction from senator dianne feinstein and supporters of gun reform and vice president biden made an
. >>> house republicans also voted today again for the paul ryan budget. democrats are very excited about that because they plan to use that vote against republicans in campaign ads for the next election. we have the one and only ezra klein here momentarily to sort out what's important about what they just voted on in congress and whether we just avoided one of the cliff slash ceilings clash crisis congress now schedules for us every few weeks and whether the way they avoided this next...
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because paul ryan is 20e89ly wrong about that. paul ryan, math guy, is getting the arithmetic horribly wrong here. paul ryan says we thought we would have 40 votes from democrats, but 16 of them reneged. look at the number of republican votes there. if you add to that number the 16 lost democrats who paul ryan says would have made all the difference, the bill still fails. they would still be seven votes shy of winning. the problem is not that they lost democrats by making the bill too conservative. even if they had kept all of those democrats, they still would have lost anyway because of their own side. the republicans' problem is that they lost so many republicans, including paul ryan himself, who voted against it. and they were so surprised by their own side losing it for them, they had no idea what happened. they still do not understand it. they are bewildered by their own failure. and that is the game plan they say they are going to use to pass immigration reform. and maybe they will. but in assessing that possibility it seems
because paul ryan is 20e89ly wrong about that. paul ryan, math guy, is getting the arithmetic horribly wrong here. paul ryan says we thought we would have 40 votes from democrats, but 16 of them reneged. look at the number of republican votes there. if you add to that number the 16 lost democrats who paul ryan says would have made all the difference, the bill still fails. they would still be seven votes shy of winning. the problem is not that they lost democrats by making the bill too...
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it is senator patty murray, she is working with paul ryan on this. you might remember him from the big deficit reduction in 2010. he was part of that and he killed it. paul ryan's history of working on deals like this is he likes to be seen working on them before he breaks free and calls them impure and kills what he helped to negotiate. i'm not getting excited about this yet. initial reports are positive, long term prospects are dim. even the babiest of babe steps are steps. in a year like this one, a congress like this one, the most meager signs of progress must be nurtured. >> protests do not always have signs and chanting. sometimes their quieter and they look like this. this small group of protestors that received visits from the president, first lady, vice president, today each of the seated protestors who you see here in this ceremony each passed on a responsibility, a certain task to the people kneeling before them. among the group, agreeing to take up the mantle, was this young congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts. >>> in 1968 senator ke
it is senator patty murray, she is working with paul ryan on this. you might remember him from the big deficit reduction in 2010. he was part of that and he killed it. paul ryan's history of working on deals like this is he likes to be seen working on them before he breaks free and calls them impure and kills what he helped to negotiate. i'm not getting excited about this yet. initial reports are positive, long term prospects are dim. even the babiest of babe steps are steps. in a year like...
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paul ryan did not even mention obama care about what it is that the republicans need to keep fighting about. so if you're looking for cues from washington about what exactly is going on and why we're still shut down and what it is all about, you can take your pick. they're only fighting about obama care and forget the debt ceiling, or they are fighting over the debt ceiling and forget about obama care. okay, whatever the strategy was before, it sort of evaporated today between the conservative groups and the members of congress who supposedly are doing their bidding or vice versa, absolutely no coherence as of today. that was all before the coke brothers freaked out today, the koch brothers and their partners spent nearly a quarter of a billion over the last year funding all the groups trying the shutdown fight. the creepy paper mache head that says they are trying to not get the college students health insurance, heritage action, running ads against republicans who are insufficiently hard line on the shutdown, funded by the koch brothers. the de-fund obama care tool kit, funded by th
paul ryan did not even mention obama care about what it is that the republicans need to keep fighting about. so if you're looking for cues from washington about what exactly is going on and why we're still shut down and what it is all about, you can take your pick. they're only fighting about obama care and forget the debt ceiling, or they are fighting over the debt ceiling and forget about obama care. okay, whatever the strategy was before, it sort of evaporated today between the conservative...
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congressman paul ryan who had been mitt romney's running mate. he started speaking in moving terms the immigration reforms being absolutely in keeping with republican conservative principles. these are not immigrant activists sitting in a tent on the mall, these are the leaders of the republican party saying that want to get it done, and they have had all year, and they haven't done anything. neither have they done anything else. the congress, the one now limping to a close, has passed fewer laws than any congress in modern history. they have made history for doing less ever. in legislative temples. they have made such little forward progress it can't be seen with the naked eye. if you're one of those people who has wanted this congress to do something this year, you have out of luck, congress had not done anything it wanted to do. this congress right now is just now in the business of doing things. so if you wanted them to do something, they haven't done it. now, on the other hand, there are also people who have been hoping that congress would n
congressman paul ryan who had been mitt romney's running mate. he started speaking in moving terms the immigration reforms being absolutely in keeping with republican conservative principles. these are not immigrant activists sitting in a tent on the mall, these are the leaders of the republican party saying that want to get it done, and they have had all year, and they haven't done anything. neither have they done anything else. the congress, the one now limping to a close, has passed fewer...
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budget that has a sequestration level and paul ryan. >> i don't know if there are a enough worried about voting for a budget that includes chain cpi -- >> that is why i worry about the grand bargain. sam sedar, from the majority report. >> i loved joy reid talking about the magic sword of pain. >> that is in article two of the constitution. >> it is actually deuteronomy, come on. all right, this is the gallup poll over time over the last 20 years, showing the favorability rating for the two main parties in our country. red for republican, blue for democrat. over time, big picture as you can see, the democratic party has sort of been broadly, more well liked in the country than the republican party is. the second term of the george w. bush presidency, in particular. way earlier than that, though, the republicans do have this one big problem area, one big plunge, more than a dip, right? they kind of fell off a cliff right there. what exactly was going on right there that made the country hate the republican party much more dramatically than they ever had before? that was the vote to impeac
budget that has a sequestration level and paul ryan. >> i don't know if there are a enough worried about voting for a budget that includes chain cpi -- >> that is why i worry about the grand bargain. sam sedar, from the majority report. >> i loved joy reid talking about the magic sword of pain. >> that is in article two of the constitution. >> it is actually deuteronomy, come on. all right, this is the gallup poll over time over the last 20 years, showing the...
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but the radical fringe in control of the republican party is out there -- paul ryan was on the floor of the house of representatives not six months ago railing about the fact that women routinely lie about their health just in order to get that abortion. that's not where the people of this country are. and i think that thanks to governor ultrasound, mcdonnell of virginia, and thanks to ken cuccinelli, who wants to be the next republican governor of virginia, who is absolutely another governor ultrasound, i think people's attention has been sort of focused on this, and people are turned off by it. i think that if democrats want to continue winning elections, they will continue to put this issue forward and be very open and transparent about it and say, you know, we don't see why women's health should be restricted. there is not a single aspect of men's health that gets restricted on ideological grounds. we're not going to do it to women. >> i think your hypothesis there bolstered by the fact that governor mcdonnell, governor ultrasound saw fit to pass this -- sign these regulations th
but the radical fringe in control of the republican party is out there -- paul ryan was on the floor of the house of representatives not six months ago railing about the fact that women routinely lie about their health just in order to get that abortion. that's not where the people of this country are. and i think that thanks to governor ultrasound, mcdonnell of virginia, and thanks to ken cuccinelli, who wants to be the next republican governor of virginia, who is absolutely another governor...
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it's scott walker, right, it's marco rubio, it's paul ryan, it's rand paul, it's ted cruz, jeb bush. jeb bush. the beltway media line is still jeb bush is the adult in the room in the republican party. he's the one who doesn't traffic in this fire and brimstone nonsense. he is mr. serious policy. mr. serious policy, mr. adult in the room is going to be the featured speaker at this christian coalition conference that started today in washington alongside virginia's finest, the satan yoga guy. because this is how things are now. everybody keeps saying this problem is in the past for the republicans. it's not in the past. it's worse than it has ever been. a few weeks ago with crest pro-health clinical. after my last dentist's visit, i was like, "i need to take this up a notch." [ male announcer ] try crest pro-health clinical together to keep your teeth 97% as clean as a dental cleaning. i mean, there's a difference right from the beginning. my mouth felt cleaner. i could really feel it changing something for the better. [ male announcer ] go pro with crest pro-health clinical. ahh, loo
it's scott walker, right, it's marco rubio, it's paul ryan, it's rand paul, it's ted cruz, jeb bush. jeb bush. the beltway media line is still jeb bush is the adult in the room in the republican party. he's the one who doesn't traffic in this fire and brimstone nonsense. he is mr. serious policy. mr. serious policy, mr. adult in the room is going to be the featured speaker at this christian coalition conference that started today in washington alongside virginia's finest, the satan yoga guy....
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paul ryan piped up. he popped up and said, how about my tax code changes from when i ran for vice president? can i have those tax code changes now? democrats said no. republicans demanded that the administration get rid of cole ash regulations. democrats said no. then they demanded to change the tax on medical devices, the tax on medical devices. no. can we change the treasury department's rules so that the next crisis we have is even worse than this because they have no flexibility to move the money around. that's what we want. no can get guarantees of income verification for certain low-income people who get subsidies for their health insurance under obama care? yes. yes, you can have that one. keep that one here. that is already in the obama care law. it's already the law, so yes you can have it. also bestow the name thursday on the day that comes after wednesday, if you like. the income verification thing that they won is already in obama care. so, yes, you can have that. you enjoy that. of all the o
paul ryan piped up. he popped up and said, how about my tax code changes from when i ran for vice president? can i have those tax code changes now? democrats said no. republicans demanded that the administration get rid of cole ash regulations. democrats said no. then they demanded to change the tax on medical devices, the tax on medical devices. no. can we change the treasury department's rules so that the next crisis we have is even worse than this because they have no flexibility to move the...